Yearly Archives: 2015

Overview So, I’ve sold my much beloved Alienware M14xr2 in late 2015, that quad core hell of a power machine, opting for something much lighter and sleeker – as I do foresee a lot of travelling around in the near future. This is my note on my Macbook Air 11″ 2015, and I’ll be updating…

So I was trying to install Ubuntu on a Windows machine (I switch OS every 1 year or so) – and mistakenly erased my Windows partitions! I did have my daily backup but it is a hassle having to set up everything again, so I looked for ways to reverse the effect. Turns out that there…

Overview I bought a cheap router when I was in Taiwan back in 2012, firmware language was in Chinese, can’t do local DNS – and finally I decided to do something about it. After some searching, found out that its got an english firmware. But in the process, I thought why not give DD-WRT a…

I’ve had this mouse for more than a year now, and hands down this is one of the best everyday mouse I have ever used. No shortcoming at all – the weight and balance, size, responsiveness, build quality, is extremely good. I dropped the mouse many times when I am running in between meetings,…

Background This is a quick note on the use of OpenLDAP for simple identity management within a network. As the number of machines in a network grow, managing credentials between multiple machines becomes a pain. The setup objective is rather simple: The first machine, vm 0 – is the one that will manage user credential…